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NIGHT LIGHT. NO. 352,718; Patented NOV. 16, 1886.,

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JAMES STRATTON AND WILLIAM J STRATTON, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent 1\'l'o. 352,718, dated November 16, 1886. Application filed May 10, 1886. Serial No. 201,711. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, JAMES STRATTON and WILLIAM J. STRATTON, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State'of New York, have invented a new and Improved Night-Light Attachment, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Our invention relates to the construction of a night-light attachment, the object of the invention being to provide an adj nstable device whereby the light from a small lamp or gasburner may be directed on any desired object in the room-such, for instance, as the clock vertical section.

the light being shaded so as to leave the rest of the room in comparative darkness.

To the end named the invention consists in the peculiar-construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had tothe accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side view of our improved attachment, representing the same as arranged in connection with a drop-light attachment, the screen and the lens being shown in central Fig. 2 is a side view of the apparatus arranged to be used in connection witha small lamp, and Fig. 3 is a diagram illustrating the manner in which the device illustrated in Fig. 1 is applied-in practical use. Fig. 4 is an end view ofthe attachment shown in Fig. 1.

Referring now to the general construction illustrated in the drawings, represents a lens the convex face of which is shaded by a hood, 11, said hood being formed witha groove, 12, within which the edge of thelens is held. The lens and its hood are supported by a short standard, 13, which standard is carried by a coupling-piece, 14, arranged in connection with the tube ofa droplight'sock'et, 16, the parts being united by a swing-joint, 40, of ordinary construction. The gas is led through a tube, 17, to a burner, 18. Upon the burner 18 there is arranged atwopa'rt screen,

20, consisting, essentially, of a cylindricalsection, 21, to one side of which there is secured a cone-shaped section, 22, the parts being so arranged that the rays of light from the burner 18 will be free to fall upon the lens, but all other rays, except those passing out through the top of the section 21, will be intercepted.

In Fig. 2 the tube 17, instead of carrying a upon which there is secured a lamp, 31, the lens, the lamp, and its screen being all carried by a swing-joint, 33, formed in connection with the standard 50, uponwhich the whole apparatus is mounted.

In Fig. 3 we illustrate the manner in which the attachinent is employed when a gas-jet is used for the purpose of producing the lightthat is, we show how the rays of light-may be directed upon the clock or any other object in the room.

.It will be seen that as the lamp or burner, as well as the lens, is supported by a swingjoint the parts may be moved so as to throw the rays at any elevation desired.

The interior of the section 22 is blackened, so as to present a non-reflecting surface, the idea being to prevent the production of rings in the light thrown by the lens.

We are aware that a camera has been con nected by a balLand-socket joint to a gasburner, said camerabeing provided at one side of its interior with a reflector, and at the side opposite the reflector with a lens and conical tube for emitting the light and throwing it to any dcs rcd' point; and we are also aware that reflectors have been secured to gas-burners, and therefore do not claim such inventions.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

-' 1. The combination, in a night-light, of'a support formed with aswingingjoint,a burner, a screen supported thereonand formed of a cylindrical section and a lateral cone-shaped section, and a lens supported by the swinging joint in front of the coneshaped section of the screen, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a night-light attachment, the combination, witha drop-light, ofthe screen 20, com posed of the cylindrical section 21 and the cone-shaped section 22, and supported upon the burner, the standard 13, projecting from ajoint in the drop-light, the hood 11, secured to the standard in front of and a short distance from the cone-shaped section of the screen, and the lens 10 in the-said hood, substantially as herein shown and described.

JAMES STRATTON. WILLIAM J. STRATTON.

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